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Let’s play a game! I want you to pick urgent care or emergency department (ED) for each of the following scenarios. Sally has just fallen off the monkey bars at school and hurt her wrist. There isn’t any blood; her wrist just hurts. Urgent care or emergency department? Bobby was playing in the living room […]

Mommas who are, have, and will survive the tummy bug this year know the deepest, darkest depths of mommy despair that I would never wish on anyone. When you are pregnant and creating these precious bundles of joy NO ONE forewarns you of the awfulness that is the rota-virus… NO ONE. After surviving yet again […]

Oh how I hate cold and flu season! No matter how hard I try to stay healthy I still seem to catch everything my little ones bring home. While most of the time I can take something over the counter and power through, there are those occasions when this mama goes down. I remember the […]

You know those people that start counting down the number of weeks until Christmas in July and don’t mind holiday decorations making appearances in stores before Halloween? Yeah, that’s not me. In fact, I’m kind of a bah humbug mom. I took to social media last year and posted about how tired the holidays make me. I […]

Disclaimer: This post is written by our contributor, who is a Physician’s Assistant. This is a generalized overview of strep and flu, but if you feel your child may have strep or flu, we urge you to always contact your child’s own medical professional. The advice here is not intended to provide a diagnosis, but to raise […]